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Friday 23 September 2011

I thought I would like to share this idea with you. It is something I always hang up at Christmas and I am adding to the theme every year. In World of Cross Stitch or any good cross stitch magazine they often have Christmas patterns over a couple of issues. The patterns asked for 14 count aida but I wanted them to be larger so I used 10 count plastic canvas.  Here I have cross stitched Santa's sleigh onto plastic canvas leaving a stitch wide border around the edges and cut it out. Then I cross stitched Rudolf and friend also onto plastic canvas, left a border and cut out. I have three nails on my wall and I wrapped a long length of ribbon between the three nails. I then attatch the sleigh to one then the two reindeer to the other two nails covering the ends of the ribbon. Then it is just a case of using tiny pegs to clip Christmas cards to the ribbon.

13 comments:

  1. This is really beautiful Sue. Lee x

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  2. Love this, it's beautiful and traditional ! x

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  3. This is fabulous, so creative and clever :-) Just leapblogging by, have a lovely weekend :-) Elaine-xxx-

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  4. What a great idea! Hope you had a lovely holiday
    Linda

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  5. Fab idea, the reindeer are gorgeous! The fur looks so realistic x

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  6. Just hopped in on the leapblog to see this beautiful cross-stitch creation. You are really clever! Very envious about the Peak District -- it's a lovely place to visit. xx Jill B

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  7. Just hopping around...... LOVE those reindeer!
    Hugs
    Christine x

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  8. Wow - what a fabulous idea - very effective on the wall!

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  9. love your idea, it looks fabulous

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  10. beautiful cross-stitch wall art Sue, perfect as Christmas card holders, they are fab!! Fi x

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  11. Great idea and it looks lovely. xx

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  12. wow Sue you cross stitched that, its an amazing piece of work...fantastic work
    Mina xxx

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